Doux Nikephoros of Athens

Doux Nikephoros of Athens (1040-24 June 1069) was the doux of Athens under the Byzantine Empire, preceding Doux Leosthenes of Athens.

Biography
Nikephoros was born in 1040 to Leosthenes Melissenos, and he was from the House of Melissenos, a dynasty of Orthodox Christian Greeks. Nikephoros was the doux (duke) of Athens (in present-day Greece) in the Byzantine Empire. He died at the age of 29 as a maimed cripple, and his one-year-old son Doux Leosthenes of Athens succeeded him.